Men admit stealing from home store

Two California men admitted to felony charges of burglary of a business for putting expensive items in a box labeled for something cheaper.

Huy Tuan Nguyen, 35, and Vong Vang, 39, entered guilty pleas to the charges on Tuesday and face up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Vang was the driver while Nguyen went into the Home Depot and using fraudulent labels grabbed a $199 battery kit and a $189 nail gun and put it in a box with a $40 label.

The men were arrested on May 22 with inventory pricing labels, which could be used to replace the store’s labels and more than 30 receipts.

At a bail hearing shortly after their arrest, prosecutors said that Vang had four felonies in the last decade. Nguyen allegedly had a string of offenses that occurred over just the last year.

Sentencing was set for Oct. 1.

• A man accused in the robbery of the COD Casino has a new attorney.

Christopher Day was appointed to represent Chase Aaron Henderson, who’s facing robbery, kidnapping and attempted murder felonies in connection with the July 14, 2023, case.

Henderson and Andrew Toomey will return to court with their attorneys on Sept 3 to set a new trial date. The two men are denying the charges. Their September trial was delayed after Henderson’s attorney died.

• A woman was allowed to attend veterans court as her diversion for possession of 22 grams of fentanyl and 14 grams of methamphetamine.

Kaela Mae Horse-Berreman, 35, appeared in district court on Tuesday after several delays. Horse-Berreman served in the U.S. Army artillery and ended up addicted to opiates.

She and Anthony Gabriel Munoz, 28, were arrested Sept. 30, 2023, after she was seen stumbling into a vehicle and was pulled over for driving under the influence and failure to maintain her lane.

Attorney Max Stovall said the drugs were for the pair’s personal use.

Munoz failed to return to court after being released and is the subject of a warrant.

Horse-Berreman was the driver when Nicholas Berreman shot Douglas County Sheriff’s Sgt. John Lenz in December 2020.

• A Lake Tahoe man who had to be extradited back to Douglas County received a suspended 12-30-month sentence after he admitted to possession of methamphetamine.

District Judge Tod Young observed that Dylan Russell Foote, 39, was so well-known to law enforcement that he was easily recognized while getting into a vehicle on Feb. 23.

Foote must pay $151.17 in restitution to reimburse the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office for fetching him from California.